Forum: Vue

Subject: Ecosystem is amazing

creed2003 opened this issue on Mar 29, 2005 ยท 18 posts

creed2003 posted Tue, 29 March 2005 at 11:01 PM

I've been playing with V5I for a few days now and have been trying different things with the ecosystem. Today I thought, can I make any other materials behave like an ecosystem. So I started to make a scene and put one tree in it. I then edited the tree trunk mat and made it an ecosystem material and chose a little bird as an object. In an instant I had a tree full of birds!!!! I was so excited I had to post it.

Jim

ShadowWind posted Tue, 29 March 2005 at 11:13 PM

That's very cool. Amazing what the eco system will do...

Ms_Outlaw posted Wed, 30 March 2005 at 12:08 AM

Very cool idea.

Pollee posted Wed, 30 March 2005 at 12:30 AM

That is a great idea & works like a charm. Thanks for sharing.

Belgareth posted Wed, 30 March 2005 at 1:30 AM

Excellent idea:)

SAMS3D posted Wed, 30 March 2005 at 3:45 AM

ooooooo, I have to try that. Sharen

DMM posted Wed, 30 March 2005 at 4:57 AM

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA :D Amazing, I never would have thought of that.

Phoul posted Wed, 30 March 2005 at 6:40 AM

Excellent idea!

BigGreenFurryThing posted Wed, 30 March 2005 at 7:03 AM

Excellent thinking. Thanks for sharing.

Cheers,
Mark

ChileanLlama posted Wed, 30 March 2005 at 7:59 AM

Great :D Now if there was a way to populate downwards you could also add fruit to the trees :)

creed2003 posted Wed, 30 March 2005 at 8:32 AM

Actually there is. In the material editor there is a function called "Offset from surface". By sliding this tab you can change the hight of the object vs the surface of your material. Jim

ChileanLlama posted Wed, 30 March 2005 at 8:54 AM

Hi Jim, does that work? Cool!! I was thinking that it wouldn't based on the discussions using an eco system to populate a sphere all the way round.

yggdrasil posted Wed, 30 March 2005 at 10:41 AM

If you look at the converging ducks image in my gallery, this ecosystem used a small negative offset to get the ducks to swim in the water rather than walk on it!

Mark

SAMS3D posted Wed, 30 March 2005 at 4:18 PM

Okay I tried the bird thing and it only gave me one bird...what am I doing wrong. Sharen

yggdrasil posted Wed, 30 March 2005 at 5:13 PM

Sharen, Try decreasing the scaling to make the birds smaller or increasing the overall density to make them squeeze closer together. Just fiddle with the sliders and keep hitting populate until you get a number you're satisfied with. Mark

Mark

creed2003 posted Wed, 30 March 2005 at 9:32 PM

Works with just about any object too. I just tried it using the fir tree and different color spheres. Viola, instant Christmas tree!!!!

SAMS3D posted Thu, 31 March 2005 at 3:54 AM

Okay, I will try that. Thanks, Sharen

SAMS3D posted Thu, 31 March 2005 at 4:33 AM

Just got it...thank you....these penquins could be in trouble. Thanks for all your help. Sharen